Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
  • A63H33/00—Other toys
  • A63H33/008—Playhouses, play-tents, big enough for playing inside
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
  • E04B1/00—Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
  • E04B1/02—Structures consisting primarily of load-supporting, block-shaped, or slab-shaped elements
  • E04B1/12—Structures consisting primarily of load-supporting, block-shaped, or slab-shaped elements the elements consisting of other material
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
  • E04H1/00—Buildings or groups of buildings for dwelling or office purposes; General layout, e.g. modular co-ordination or staggered storeys
  • E04H1/12—Small buildings or other erections for limited occupation, erected in the open air or arranged in buildings, e.g. kiosks, waiting shelters for bus stops or for filling stations, roofs for railway platforms, watchmen's huts or dressing cubicles

Definitions

• Such houses are very suitable for small children to play in, but do not satisfy their needs to build a house or a cave themselves.
• the invention concerns building elements of the in the introduction claim 1 indicated kind, and which are characteristic in that they consist of plates of flexible polyurethan foam which at the ends are formed as logs.
• polyurethan foam with open cells should be used, as this material gives more flexibility, but nevertheless is sufficiently stiff for the purpose.
• constructions of building elements according to the invention besides being suitable for playhouses, also are very suitable for construction of screenings, f.inst. in places where repairs of machinery or buildings by means of noisy implements have to take place.
• - flexible polyurethan foam is preferably used as the use of this material results in the elements being easy to mount even though the building elements have to be placed on a base, the side lines of which are not absolutely rectilinear, and besides effects that no sound bridge between the single elements is formed, neither in the corner joints nor where the elements meet edge to edge.
• the elements When the elements are designed for playhouses, they can be covered with a washable textile. Another possibility is a cover made of a foil of artificial material, and this possibility is used when the elements are used f.inst. as sound silencing construction around a machinery repair so that oil and dirt can be wiped off easily.
• Fig. 1 shows a bottom- or topelement for two opposite sides in a rectangular construction.
• Fig. 3 an element which is part of a side
• Fig. 4 a house end element
• the element 4 shown in fig. 2 has a height 2h and is at both long edges formed with cuts 2' , 2" and 3', 3" which have the same dimensions as the cuts 2 and 3. It has the same length and thickness as element 1.
• the element 5 shown in fig. 3 has the same height as element 4, but a length which is only about 1/3 of its length. It is at each long edge at one end of the element formed with two cuts 2'", 2"" with the same dimensions as the cut 2 in element 1.
• a house can be built f.inst. by first putting 2 elements 1 parallel to the uncut long edge on a level base and in the distance 1-4t from eachother, then the two elements are connected with two elements 4, fastening the two elements by means of the cuts.
• an element 5 is fastened on each side, while element 4 is used for the construction of the other sides.
• the construction is continued in this way with elements placed in layers, using for the last layer two elements 1 and two elements 4 so that the walls of the construction are of the same height.
• the construction can be terminated by elements 4 placed flat down so that the result is a square roofed construction with an entrance between the elements 5.
• An appropriate size of the elements 1 and 4 is a length of appr. 1.5 m and a thickness of appr. 7 cm and a height of 18 and 36 cm respectively. With these dimensions the weight of one element is about 1 kg and can thus easily be handled by a kindergarten child.

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